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Investigators looking into Saturday’s fatal police shooting in the South Shore neighborhood will have “tons” of video to review, Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says. It will likely take months for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to determine whether the shooting was justified.

But Johnson took the unusual step of releasing a video clip — less than half a minute long — within 24 hours after the shooting. He hoped it would calm protesters by answering the key question of whether Harith Augustus was armed. On Monday, COPA promised to release the rest “at the earliest point.”

The 20-second video, taken by an officer’s body camera, shows what looks like...

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